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Teach Engineering: Dome It Challenge Lesson PlanTeach Engineering: Dome It Challenge Lesson Plan
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Teach Engineering: Dome It Challenge

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Students brainstorm, identify, and explore the pathways where their food, water, and energy originate, and where wastewater and solid waste go. They learn that resources are interdependent and that recycling wastes into resources is key to sustain a closed system.

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recycling, sustainability, wastewater, stem

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biorecycling, closed system, sustainable, waste, dome it challenge, teachengineering
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Grade
5th - 8th
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Science
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For Administrator Use
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